Last December we published Material Conditions, a set of eight commissioned books exploring what it means and takes to be a professional creative practitioner. Inspired by the title of a behind-the-scenes blog post which followed, we’ve added a new chapter to the series, continuing a discussion which seems ever more relevant in the current climate. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'creative process'
Material Conditions: Epilogue
October 8th, 2012 1 Comment
Tags: collaboration · creative process · eBooks · inspiration · material conditions · publishing on demand · the periodical
Field Work eNotebook
September 25th, 2012 No Comments
Subscribe to the Periodical to receive your own eNotebook. Complete and return it to Proboscis for digitisation. Several times a year – depending on the quality and quantity of what we receive – we will select and print a Field Work eNotebook for inclusion in a Periodical issue.
Tags: creative process · eNotebooks · making · sketchbook · the periodical
Field Work, a project for the Periodical
September 24th, 2012 4 Comments
For a decade or so we’ve been designing custom notebooks and sketch books for use in projects and workshops – for individuals, groups of participants, communities and some just for anyone who wants to use them. There’s a small library of ‘eNotebooks’ on Diffusion – many by us and some by others (see below and/or [...]
Tags: creative process · eNotebooks · experiments · making · the periodical
Recording & Sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge
September 13th, 2012 1 Comment
This week I’ve spent a couple of days in Scotland with James Leach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen working on ideas for recording and sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in the field through hybrid technologies and tools. We are taking part in a symposium at the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea [...]
Tags: anthropology · collaboration · creative process · IPATEK · TEK · traditional ecological knowledge
Zineage Kicks
March 6th, 2012 No Comments
I haven’t featured any Zine related stuff on the bookleteer blog for a while now, so whilst we’re busy producing the eBooks for City As Material 2, I thought I’d share a blog I’ve just discovered. Zineage Kicks is a behind the scenes look at a number of the early Zines of guest contributors, chronicling [...]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · creative process · eBooks · material conditions · zines
‘According To The Artists’ / ‘Talking Art’
February 8th, 2012 No Comments
Before the New Year, we published the first series of Material Conditions, a set of eight eBooks asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts. Since then, [...]
Tags: art · collaboration · creative process · eBooks · material conditions
Jonathan Franzen vs The ebook
February 1st, 2012 No Comments
On Monday, the Guardian published an article in which the novelist Jonathan Franzen condemned ebooks, warning that they have a negative effect on literature, and may actually be damaging to society. Whilst I’m inclined to agree with his statements about the nature of physical books, that they are permanent and reassuring tangible objects – monuments [...]
Tags: creative process · eBooks · ideas · technology · writing
In the Margins
January 19th, 2012 No Comments
This recent article from the Guardian Books blog, ponders whether or not it’s acceptable to make notes in the margins of books. Reading it, I was reminded of how annotating draft bookleteer eBooks during the editing and proofing stages of Material Conditions was an invaluable part of the process. We were able to quickly transform the [...]
Tags: bookleteer · creative process · eBooks · eNotebooks · material conditions
Read to Write
January 10th, 2012 No Comments
I wrote a few months back about the level of Narrative Immersion amongst different mediums – books, television, film, video games – championing the depth and unique experience that the written word affords. I was concentrating on the effects of these forms when using them purely for leisure, but the specific focus I’ve placed on [...]
Tags: creative process · creativity · technology · writing
Material Conditions, Series 1 – Epilogue
December 16th, 2011 1 Comment
Yesterday, Proboscis launched the first series of Material Conditions, a set of eight eBooks created with bookleteer, asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts – part [...]
Tags: bookleteer · creative process · diffusion · eBooks · material conditions
Mind, Pen, Page
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
My last few posts have concentrated on the different effects of various mediums on readers, their output if you like, but, triggered by this eloquent article championing pen on paper featured recently in The New York Review of Books, I’ve been thinking about the effects of various methods of input on writers and their work. [...]
Tags: creative process · creativity · handmade · ideas · notebook · technology · writing
Drawn In
August 8th, 2011 No Comments
I’ve been following Julia Rothman’s excellent blog, Book By Its Cover for a good while now, and first heard about the concept behind Drawn In months back, but for some reason its actual release evaded me. I’ve re-discovered it now, and immediately snapped it up from Amazon, as we’re planning a new series looking into [...]
Tags: book · creative process · creativity · inspiration · sketchbook
